Cyberpunk: I didn't cheat.

Chapter 124 How Should I Say Goodbye to You

The wrecked Emperor 620 sped out of the city center under Falco's control. In Falco's view, Vito had bought them time, and he could not let down everything Vito had done.

Rebecca yelled and screamed, her gorilla arms gripping the Malorian Overture as she tried to jump out of the car.

"That damn bastard! He's clearly got the blockhead and he's messing with me! Big Beard, stop the car!"

Stubborn Rebecca wanted to help Vito, but Lucy hugged Rebecca while opening the car door to let David, whose body was being crushed by the prosthetic body, in.

"Lucy! Let me go! Vito! He's Vito!"

Rebecca shouted loudly. The moment she was rescued felt incredibly long, as if time had stood still. In that instant, she seemed to see Vito's face through the mask.

"Vito!?"

Lucy's eyes widened. Just then, another explosion came from the direction of the company square, followed by silence.

Everyone fell silent, and they were all pessimistic about the outcome in the face of Adam Hammer.

The survivors released all their emotions at once. Although this was the fate of cyberpunk, they had never learned to accept the death of their companions with a smile.

Rebecca stopped struggling. She lowered her head and stared blankly at the Malorian Overture in her hand.

The anti-gravity device on the prosthetic body began to malfunction, and David could barely support the weight of the prosthetic body. He looked at the roof of the vehicle.

"Vito, a promise."

beep!

[Go to this location, don't take the main road. I'll have Jack bring Gloria to meet you.]

"It's Vito!"

David shouted.

"Vito?"

"Vito messaged me, he's alright! Falco, go to this position."

Falco glanced at the location, then jerked the steering wheel.

"Wanderers' territory? We shouldn't be able to find ourselves here on this desolate slope!"

When they arrived, Jack and Gloria had just arrived at the same location, an abandoned rail station in the Badlands.

"Gloria! They're here!"

Gloria rushed to the Emperor 620, which hadn't even come to a complete stop yet. The door opened, and David's eyes began to sparkle again.

"Lucy! Insert the chip into David's device!"

Gloria handed a box to Lucy, who then connected a data cable to David and began scanning him.

Gloria's tears streamed down her face, but her hands remained steady, each movement swift and precise.

Just then, a van pulled up at the abandoned station, and Falco drew his gun to warn the newcomer.

The car hadn't stopped, but the sound had already arrived.

"Jack, is the circuit connected?"

With a hum, the station lights came on.

"Alright! V, where's Lao Wei?"

Old Vie jumped out of the car and, together with Vincent, carried simple surgical instruments and some replacement prosthetics that might be needed.

"I'm here, Jack. Go help out with the patient once you're done on your end!"

David was carried into the station. Gloria noted down David's examination information and sent it to Old Vie. She changed into sterile clothing and cleaned the makeshift operating room.

"Put the child here, Mrs. Martinez. Could you please help me out, V? We might need a lot of synthetic plasma here, so you'll have to get us some more in case of an emergency."

Vincent nodded.

"Leave it to me!"

Vincent checked the selected magazines as he walked; the badlands were never short of clueless bandits.

Outside the makeshift operating room, the remaining four people silently gazed in the direction of Night City.

"Has that guy come out yet?"

Rebecca frowned, Falco looked grave, and Lucy remained silent, her fingertips trembling slightly.

Jack clutched the golden-haired woman tightly in his arms, staring in the direction of Night City, suppressing his urgent urge to go to the Aragaka Tower.

"Trust Vito!"

Jack's words seemed to be both an answer to the other three and a way of comforting himself.

At that moment, they saw fireworks exploding in the sky above Night City.

"This...this was made by Vito-chan, right?"

The sudden death of Rintaro, the head of the security department, plunged the entire Arasaka Security Department into brief chaos.

But the well-trained corporate dogs quickly recovered and launched a city-wide manhunt.

Valerie was watching the fireworks outside through a camera.

At that moment, her belief in Arasaka's strength and invincibility wavered. Vito's fireworks seemed to open a crack in her mind, and the wind kept blowing the crack wider and wider.

The wind carried a voice saying that the company was really nothing special.

Splash!

The counterintelligence department's doors opened, and security agents filed in, armed with guns.

"V, shut down the prosthetic body and relinquish company privileges. You are suspected of betraying company secrets, leading to—"

Valerie interrupted the security personnel with a cold laugh.

"So eager to come and shift the blame?"

The security department also brought several people in charge of the prosthetic body project. The security department is carrying out self-rescue in accordance with Rintaro's last wishes.

"V, you are fully responsible for the Cybertronian Project and the attack on Arasaka Tower!"

After saying that, the security personnel tried to move forward and restrain Valerie.

"If I'm fully responsible? Then you should all commit suicide to atone for your sins!"

After saying that, Valerie invoked the Counterintelligence Department's internal oversight authority.

All of the security department's violations over the past few months were displayed on the big screen, and violations by mid-level security personnel were also marked as potentially leaking company secrets.

"You! How dare you steal company information!"

The security personnel were immediately thrown into a panic when this serious accusation was leveled against them.

At this point, the virus [Serves You Right] that Valerie had set up was activated again, and the cybernetic bodies of Agent Arasaka, who went out to hunt down Blockhead and David's team, encountered some problems, both big and small.

The urgent reports came in like snowflakes.

"Our agents have been infected with the cyber virus, what's wrong with your counterintelligence department?!"

"Your unauthorized subnet was attacked by a virus, and now you're dragging the counterintelligence department into it?"

At this moment, Jenkins came out. He had confirmed that Rintaro had been killed by the attackers, his head severed from his body, and there was no possibility of recovery.

With his subordinates possessing damaging information about the security department and now launching a counter-offensive while things are going smoothly, Jenkins has no reason not to join in.

"I have reported all the losses caused to the company by your violations to Tokyo. Lord Arasaka Yorinobu will be visiting Night City. You useless, incompetent parasites of the company should just wait for the company to deal with you! Don't you dare come to the counterintelligence department to bite us!"

Jenkins then ordered his men to clear out the security personnel, leaving only the head of the prosthetic body.

"Perhaps we should discuss who should truly be held responsible for such a huge loss to the company."

Dogtown, checkpoint.

"Welcome to Dogtown, Mr. Vito Musso."